After the second holy war The 10 Commandments were defeated and stripped of their powers. The Seven Deadly Sins were commended by the King and the ravaged country started to rebuild. Returning to the Boar Hat Meliodas resolved to continue to protect Elizabeth and run the tavern with his comrades. After months of peace Meliodas couldn't shake the feeling that the war wasn't over yet.
"What have you done with Elizabeth?!" Meliodas shouted as he rained down blows on his brothers' face. Estarossa just laughed as blood started to pool under him.
"Keep it up brother and you'll never find her…" Zeldris spoke from his prone position across the room. "Even I don't know where he put her so you may want to calm yourself before you kill him."
Meliodas took a deep breath and looked at his brothers laying out bloodied before him. Zeldris was run through with a sword pinned to the floor and missing an arm. Estarossa was a bloody laughing mess before him, almost unrecognizable with the amount of damage he had inflicted upon him. He turned away from them trying to control himself. He needed to calm down and think! How could he get Estarossa to tell him where Elizabeth was? A thought came to him.
Meliodas turned back to his brothers and crouched down next to Estarossa. "Why did you take her and not just kill her?", he asked. Estarossa looked up at him no longer smiling and said, "Why would I kill someone I love?".
Meliodas woke with a start reaching out next to him to find Elizabeth. Finding the space empty he leapt from the bed to the washroom bursting through the door to find her sitting in the tub.
"AHHH! Sss-ir Melii-odis what are you dd-doing?" Elizabeth stuttered. Meliodas started forward and knelt down next to the tub and smiled at the beet-red girl.
"I just wanted to say good morning!" he said laughingly. Seeing her blushing and sputtering brought a kind of glee to the demons soul.
Elizabeth curled her body in as tight as she could to shield herself from his gaze. "Good mm-morning Sir Meliodas!" she said not able to look at him. Meliodas could feel the heat radiating from her massive blush and took pity on her.
"I'll leave you to your bath Elizabeth, but first I wanted to know if you had any plans for the day?" he asked.
"Well Diane and I were going to see my sisters this afternoon and my father has also requested that I join them for dinner."
"That sounds good! I need to talk to Baltra anyway so I'll just come with-"
"He asked if I would come alone. He said he needed to speak with me privately." she interrupted quietly.
"Oh… ok I guess I'll just do some stuff around here then." he said.
"I'm sorry Sir Meliodas, I'll try and talk to him again and see if he'll change his mind. I'm sure that if he knew you needed to speak to him he would welcome you to dine with us!" she said firmly.
Meliodas chuckled and said, "Don't worry! It's fine I'll speak to him tomorrow. Now finish up and come on downstairs for breakfast."
Meliodas left the washroom and changed into his uniform. Walking down the stairs his mind went back to the dream he had. It had felt so real, so terrifyingly real that he couldn't let go of the feeling that he needs to keep his eyes on Elizabeth. Even now he wanted to go back into the room to make sure she was ok.
When he reached the tavern floor he saw King, Merlin and Ban sitting at a table eating breakfast.
"Hey Capt'n! Want some food? There's plenty in the kitchen if you want to make yourself a plate." Ban said.
"Actually, I need to talk to you guys before Elizabeth comes down." Meliodas took a seat next to Ban and told them about the dream he had. As he told them he could still feel like he was in the dream. He could feel his fists hitting Estarossa, smell the blood that was all over the room and the three of them.
"I just can't shake the feeling that it's not finished. Something is going to happen and I have no idea when or what." Meliodas said with growing frustration.
"Captain, it was just a dream," King said. "The 10 Commandments were beaten and stripped of their powers. There's no way that they can do anything to hurt Elizabeth."
"Yeah Cap it was just a nightmare. And even if it did mean something they wouldn't dare try anything with you being as powerful as you are. You'd finish them off for good this time." Ban stated with a smirk.
Meliodas turned to Merlin to find her staring down into her tea. "Well? You've been awfully quiet. Do you think I'm crazy too?"
Merlin looked up at him then and said, "No Captain. I don't think you're crazy. I think that you may have had a prophetic dream. Whether it is literal or not is the question."
All three men stared at the mage with wide eyes and open mouths, but before Meliodas could say anything Elizabeth walked in.
"Good morning everyone!" Elizabeth exclaimed. She looked at the group noticing that they were all acting quite strangely. No one would look at her when they mumbled their good mornings. She began to think that maybe she somehow had upset everyone but she couldn't think of what it could be.
Meliodas shook himself out of his daze and quietly told Merlin, "We will talk about this later." Turning to Elizabeth he called out, "Elizabeth come sit down and I'll grab you some food!" He graciously stood up and held out his chair for her. Elizabeth came over and sat down blushing and murmuring, "Thank you Ss-sir Meliodas. I'm not sure if I'm very hungry right n-" she sputtered to a stop because of the hands that were currently squeezing her breasts.
"Captain would you knock it off!" King said.
Meliodas squeezed her for a few seconds and then released her saying, "Nonsense! You need to eat. Otherwise how are you going to get stronger?" Meliodas placed a hand on her shoulder as he said, "After breakfast we are going to exercise your abilities. You said you wanted to be stronger to be able to protect yourself. So while Ban and I spar you are going to focus on healing me as we go. Sound good?"
Elizabeth looked up at Meliodas with a warm smile and bright eyes saying, "Yes that sounds good Sir Meliodas. Thank you."
Meliodas just smiled and went to go get her some food. As he walked to the kitchen he started to think of the dream again and he could feel his eyes growing darker. Leaning up against the counter he took some deep breaths to try and calm himself.
"You need to calm down and try to think clearly. Everything will be fine. I'm not letting her out of my sight until I can figure this out." He turned around with determination to protect Elizabeth no matter the cost.
When he emerged back onto the bar floor he saw that Diane had joined the group and was talking animatedly to Elizabeth. Judging from the blush gracing her cheeks he would say it had to do with him. With a chuckle he deposited Elizabeth's food in front of her and took the seat across from her.
"Thank you Sir Meliodas! This looks delicious." Elizabeth gave him a beautiful smile and proceeded to eat her breakfast.
"Anything for you." Meliodas said under his breath.
Hello! This is my first ever foray into fan fiction. I hope that you all like what I have so far. I'm writing it with only a loose plot so that I can change it as I wish. I promise to try my best not to contradict what is in earlier chapters with what I will write in future ones. I would absolutely love any constructive criticism sent my way. (Also any praise would be much appreciated for my tiny ego lol). I thank you for reading this and I hope to entice you back for more. I will try to upload new chapters as often as I can. As I have no life it should be fairly often lol.